About Bruce
Bruce Barrett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with four decades of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and life transitions. He listens for what gives a person meaning and works with them to make small, practical changes. Barrett brings calm, patience, and steady support to conversations that can feel overwhelming.
He favors a narrative style that helps people tell and reshape the stories they live by. He blends Jungian ideas about symbols and dreams with mindfulness practices to manage stress and regain focus.
Background and approach
Sessions often include looking at patterns, noticing bodily signals, and trying short, doable skills between meetings. Barrett draws on long experience in addiction work, including past roles as a certified alcoholism counselor and his own recovery journey. That background informs a straightforward approach to substance use and related concerns.
He also attends to grief, anger, and career and relationship confusion with practical problem solving and reflective conversation. He has worked in Massachusetts since earning his MA and LMHC and has decades of practice in nearby New Hampshire as an associate psychologist.
Barrett also offers support around aging and geriatric topics, immigration stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and issues connected to family of origin. Sessions are offered in English and German, and he offers several online formats. He aims to match therapy style to what each person needs and to help them build clearer choices and routines for everyday life.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your day
Bruce Barrett uses Jungian ideas and mindfulness practice in his online work. Jungian Therapy looks at dreams, symbols, and recurring images to help people understand inner conflicts and life themes. It can be useful for people wondering about meaning, repeated life patterns, or deep emotional material.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and lower daily stress. These techniques are practical for anxiety, anger, and improving focus between sessions. Barrett blends these approaches with narrative techniques, helping people rewrite the stories they tell about themselves and their choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Barrett will talk with each person about their goals and try different ways of working until something fits. The process is collaborative and paced to the persons needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing contact between sessions. These choices help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English, German